构建教师网络社群的意义及策略

教师网络社群已逐步成为促进教师网络教研的一种重要形式,它有助于提高教师教学反思的效率,增强教师研究的归属感,并能够转变教师的工作精神。建构优质、高效的网络社群,需要提高参与教师的交往理性,围绕教育问题展开社群探讨,重视专业人员的专业引领,综合运用多种交流形式,制定激励性管理与评价机制,增强网络社群文化的建设。     

虚拟社群信任网络的生成与维系:以广州两个跑群为例

信任网络的生成与维系是虚拟社群生存发展的内在核心机制。虚拟社群的信任网络主要由成员对社群组织、成员对社群组织者、成员人际之间三个信任层面构成。通过三个信任层面各影响因素在重要性上的描述性分析,人口统计学特征、成员行为特征与三个信任层面各影响因素的单变量方差分析,以及三个层面之间的相关性分析,研究发现交流环境、组织管理、专业指导、社会资本、忠诚度等因素是影响虚拟社群信任网络生成的重要因素。因此,要维系虚拟社群的信任网络,在成员对社群组织层面,应改善交流环境和组织管理;在成员对社群组织者层面,应发挥专业能力和社会资本;在成员人际之间层面,应提高成员忠诚度和能力素养。     

网络社群的结构与行动机制探析

在网络兴起之后,"网络上的社群"因其具有的集体的凝聚力、信息传递的快速性以及行动反应的迅捷性逐渐受到关注,本文探讨了不同的网络社群结构与行动机制间的内在关系和特征。     

基于微博的网络社群研究

文章首先对网络社群进行了简要介绍,并提出了微博网络社群产生的原因,接着对基于微博的三种网络社群模式即单一微博社群模式、主题微博社群模式和相同应用平台微博社群模式进行了分析,指出了微博网络社群在发展过程中需关注的一些问题并提出了解决方案,最后对微博网络社群的前景进行了展望。     

大学生网络社群的关键问题研究

高校教育随着互联网的发展逐渐网络化、信息化,大学生在互联网上基于教育、学习、娱乐等共同兴趣聚集,形成大学生网络社群.在大学生网络社群中,集群身份认同能让网络上一个个自由的社会人,迅速归属到一个群体,以一个群体进行社群活动.分析互联网时代背景下大学生网络社群的分类和特征,研究网络社群的集群身份认同机制,对大学生的成长发展有重要价值.     

基于社群合作的公共图书馆未成年人阅读推广策略——以京津冀地区公共图书馆为例

文章梳理国内外公共图书馆基于社群合作的未成年人阅读推广案例,采用文献调查法和网络调查法调研京津冀地区公共图书馆基于社群合作的未成年人阅读推广现状,分析其社群合作模式,指出存在的问题,并提出优化策略,即扩大合作社群,促进多元参与;丰富活动内容和形式,增强吸引力;成立未成年人阅读推广联盟,建立区域社群合作机制;建立评估反馈机制,提高社群合作质量。     

网络社群的崛起及其社会治理意义

在社会变迁和技术变迁的双重逻辑下,中国社会已然呈现出网络社会的特征.网络社会是一种新的社会形态,而网络社群则是网络社会中人们新的结群方式和社会组织形式.在当下的多元社会中,网络社群在社会治理的多元体系中日益成为其中的一元主体.提出并重构网络社群概念,能激发我们“社会学的想象力”,了解并洞察我们身处的历史和社会生活;而且,重视网络社群的崛起及其参与社会治理的实践,对建立民主和科学的社会治理机制有着重要的理论和现实意义.     

网络社群：微时代城市传播的新路径

技术驱动新兴媒体发展,开启了城市传播的"微时代"。顺应移动化、垂直化、社交化趋势,网络社群应运而生。用户兼具内容生产、传播及消费于一体,城市传播场景更趋复杂。用户生产内容与专业生产内容并进,短视频成为城市传播的"蓝海"。媒体平台社群化运营,为城市传播精准化提供了新的契机。     

网络社群的变迁趋势和负效应——以微博为例的多维视角分析

微博作为一种新型社会化媒体,构建了独特的网络社群组织,体现出自组织、后现代和群体动力学三个话语体系特征。以微博为代表的网络社群在自组织过程中,展现出去中心化、解构权威、割裂社群等多种变迁趋势。与此同时,也反映出网络群氓、伪真实、群体极化等一系列负效应。只有抓住问题的关键和本质,才能更好地引导媒介环境健康发展,构建和谐理性的网络社群秩序。     

网络社群及其治理理论研究综述

社交媒体的蓬勃发展为网络社群提供了方便快捷、成本低廉的结社平台,人们分享信息、发表意见的行为打破了单一的传播格局,在一些事件和议题上形成合力同国家权力展开激烈的博弈,对政治文化产生异化。本文在对网络社群理论研究文献进行梳理的基础上,对网络社群的演变发展、网络社群对文化政治的异化以及对网络社群的治理等进行评述。目前对网络社群分类、运作模式和治理策略已有一定的基础,但对网络社群心理尚未建立系统的分析框架。     

美国公共图书馆开展公众科学社区服务的实践与启示

美国“图书馆作为公众科学社区中心”项目旨在通过公共图书馆社区锚点的身份扩大公众科学的实践范围、提升公众科学素养,在全美范围内产生了广泛影响,值得我国学习借鉴。本文利用网络调查法对该项目进行研究,分析其实践举措,为我国公共图书馆推动公众科学的发展提供有益借鉴。具体来说,可通过吸引民众参与公众科学项目、开展公众科学项目科研数据管理与共享服务、提升图书馆馆员公众科学服务能力和构建以公共图书馆为枢纽的全国公众科学协作网络等措施,将公共图书馆打造成为公众科学的社区中心,支持公众科学的普及和可持续发展。     

Improving Library User Experience: Wi-Fi Network Assessment

Abstract

Librarians have been seeking solutions to improve library user experience. The popularity of mobile devices leads to the increasing demand for reliable and efficient wireless communication in libraries. The City Tech librarians make an effort to improve Wi-Fi network to address such challenge. The Wi-Fi survey results indicate that students are dissatisfied with the library Wi-Fi access and hope to get better wireless communication for their mobile devices. To seek approaches to the improvement of Wi-Fi speed and reliability, the authors adopted NetSpot Pro loaded with the library building map to audit wireless network performance. The Wi-Fi site survey shows the library Wi-Fi network has not only weak Wi-Fi signal strength, but also experiences severe interference and overlapping channels. The study suggests that the Library and campus IT can enhance the Wi-Fi network performance by adding more wireless APs and optimizing the locations of existing APs, Wi-Fi network setting, and wireless connection procedure. By upgrading the CUNY Fiber Network and network improvement strategy, the Library can provide effective wireless communication for student learning and research, and ultimately give students memorable library experiences.     

Connecting with Community: The Importance of Community Engagement in Rural Public Library Systems

While the topic of community engagement in public libraries has been researched in urban public library systems, little research explores community engagement in rural library systems. The Canadian province of Nova Scotia is largely rural and sparsely populated, with a dwindling and aging rural population. This report examines how community engagement can connect Nova Scotia’s rural public libraries with their communities. Librarians from eight predominantly rural library systems across the province were interviewed regarding the community engagement practices currently being used within their libraries and how their patrons (particularly youth) were reacting and responding to these practices. This article synthesizes the information derived from these interviews and provides a summary of the community engagement efforts being made throughout Nova Scotia. This study ultimately determines that while librarians in rural communities face a number of challenges when attempting to implement community engagement (e.g., small budgets and low staffing numbers), they remain extremely passionate about the topic and dedicated to serving their communities in the most meaningful and relevant way possible.     

Community Learning: The Story of Adopting Co-Agency for Effective Learning in a UK University Faculty Library

This article explores the adoption of Community Learning in a subject-specific academic library. The underlying principle for Community Learning is established as being co-agency. The rationale for adopting this theme and related principles are the results of student surveys demonstrating that librarians and libraries are not often used by students for assistance with their studies. Although much work has been achieved by librarians in improving their teaching skills, students may not choose to take advantage of learning provided in academic libraries. Current developments in US academic libraries are compared with the proposed model of Community Learning. The case study explores a number of methods employed by the library staff to engage with the whole community of which it is a part in fostering effective learning. The case study community already provides a tailored and personalized service and views Community Learning as another aspect of the service. It is possible to conclude that the methods adopted have proven to be useful, but more work is needed to embed the co-agency principle more firmly and strategically within the Faculty. Establishing the impact of Community Learning has yet to be formally investigated, but anecdotal evidence demonstrates that the route is worth pursuing.     

Librarians and OER: Cultivating a Community of Practice To Be More Effective Advocates

ABSTRACT

As the costs of scholarly and educational publications skyrocket, open educational resources (OER) are becoming an important way to provide content and enhance the teaching and learning experience. Librarians have a key role to play in developing, advocating, and managing OER. For many librarians, however, championing OERs means adding an additional responsibility to their already heavy workloads, which may be overwhelming. This article describes how a grassroots group of academic librarians in British Columbia, Canada joined together as a community of practice to learn and to share ideas, strategies, and tools to support the use of OER. The BCOER Librarians focus on the education and professional development of librarians to help facilitate the use and development of OERs and to create authoritative and sustainable resources to support librarians in OER-related interactions with faculty.     

Librarians as Makers

Recent trends in librarianship point to themes of crafters, artisans, and makers in library spaces. The American Library Association's Center for the Future of Libraries includes the Maker Movement as one of its trends. Librarians can support these makers and entrepreneurs by thinking of libraries as a place to create through community building and engagement, and considering job skills needed for success and confidence to staff such spaces, but this transformation requires administrative support. This article summarizes this movement for libraries and suggests a route to success through a case study of a year-long grant on Making Maker librarians.     

Factors that influence the establishment of a network of medical libraries in the Philippines

This paper sought to identify the factors affecting the establishment of a network of medical libraries in the Philippines. This paper dealt with the following questions: What facilitates or hinders the establishment of a network of medical libraries in the Philippines? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a network? Is it feasible to establish such a network? Who will manage the network? What are the network’s functions and services? What are the requirements to join this network? What are the governing policies and guidelines? The researcher sent survey questionnaires to heads of medical libraries who are members of the Medical and Health Librarians Association of the Philippines (MAHLAP) and/or the Association of Philippine Medical Colleges (APMC). After the initial survey, the researcher conducted focus group discussions (FGD) participated by the MAHLAP 2010 Board of Officers. The researcher also interviewed networking experts and heads of medical institutions to obtain their opinion and suggestions on network establishment. Frequency analysis was used to count preferences of librarians regarding the facilitating and hindering factors affecting the establishment of a network of medical libraries. The study revealed that the key factors affecting the establishment of a network include administrative support and budget to address hindrances such as networking costs and other requirements for joining a network. Attaining these key factors directs the readiness of medical librarians and libraries to establish a medical library network. The researcher recommends that potential member libraries sit down and further discuss the establishment of a network of medical libraries. MAHLAP should take the initiative to convene its members and present to them draft policies and guidelines. Once discussed, this can be submitted to APMC for the head’s of institution review and approval. Once the invitation for membership is approved, librarians can meet to finalize the guidelines.     

Demonstrating Value in Federal Medical Center Libraries

Abstract

Librarians in the federal sector, like librarians in other medical center libraries, increasingly find it necessary to prove their worth to administrators of their facilities in order to keep their libraries open. The Federal Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association developed a survey for use by federal librarians to help them quantify the value of library reference services provided. Using this survey, these librarians gathered statistics to show the library’s effect on patient care, education, and administrative questions.     

The Reference Librarian as Audience for NLS Reference Publications

The author describes the collections, roles, and services of the Reference Section of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), Library of Congress. He suggests that there is an audience among reference librarians for the publications produced by the NLS Reference Section. The reference librarians of the NLS network of regional and subregional libraries serving visually impaired and physically disabled readers are, of course, a primary audience for NLS reference publications. However, all items may be used as well by other librarians serving visually impaired and physically disabled people, the majority of whom undoubtedly work in public libraries. The author argues that as reference tools these publications may be used to answer quite specific inquiries and to make sound referrals on a wide range of questions. Librarians may request individual titles or have their libraries placed on a mailing list for any of the cited series.     

“数据库专人监测研究制”的探索与实践

太原理工大学图书馆在山西省高校范围内率先实行了"数据库专人监测研究制",抽调专人对本馆所购买的数据库进行实时监测、开展用户信息素养教育及对数据库进行深入研究。"数据库专人监测研究制"的实施不仅提高了电子资源的利用率,拓展了用户教育的服务模式和内容,更推动了馆员的主动学习,使其不断提升自身信息素养和教学技能。